1887.] PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 425 



names are inadmissable both under the Stricklandian code and the 

 A. O. U. code. Gmelin's name was recognized by Prof. Sven Nilsson as 

 early as 1817, when he called the species Columha domestica, distin- 

 guishing the wild birds as Columha domestica /era, and the tame ones, 

 as Columha domestica mansneta. 



[Columba rupestris (Pall. ).J 

 Siberian Rock-Pigeon. 



1826. — CoJumha oenas 8 (rupestris) Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. As., i, p. 560. 

 1854. — Columba rujyestris Bonaparte, Cousp. Av., ii, p. 48. — Taczanowski, Bull. Soc 



Zool., France, 1S76, p. 240. — Id. ibid., 1885, p. 474. — Bogdanow, C'onsp. 



Av. Imp. Ross., I, p. 2 (1884). 

 1863. — Columba livia, var. rupicola daurica Radde, Reis. Slid. Ost-Sibir., ii (p. 282). 



Taczanowski still maintains that the Ussuri specimens differ from 

 those from Baikal and Dauria in being '^eu general i)las f onces " and 

 "ilsont la teiute viueuse de la region jagiilaire beaucoup plus pro- 

 noncee, la conservant plus aux chaugements d'incideuce de la lumiere, 

 avec des reflets metalliques violets et verts, egalement inteuses." Bog- 

 danow, however, says that he can see no difference. 



TURTUR Sklby. 



1828. — Peristera Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 327 (type Col. turtur Linn.) (hcc Swains., 1827). 



1835. — Turtur Selby, Naturalists' Library, v (p. 169) (same type). 



1854. — Streptopelia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, p. 68 (type C. risoria Linn.). 



1862. — Streptopeleia Reichenbacii, Vollst. Naturg. Taub., p. 73 (emend.). 



SYNOPSIS OF the SPECIES OF TURTUR OCCURRING IN JAPAN. 



a'. Lower bind neck not encircled by a black semi-lune ; scapulars, tertiaries, and 

 most of the upper wing-coverts broadly and very strikingly margined with 

 rufous, the middle portion of the feathers being lilackish (Turtur). 



6'. Abdomen pale vinaceous buif, breast vinous fawn color T. (jelastis. 



b'K Abdomen deep vinaceous-cinnamou, inclining to rufous, breast cinuamou 



drab T. stimpsoni. 



a'. Lower hind neck encircled by a black semi-lune; scapulars, tertiaries, and upper 

 wing-coverts uniformly colored, the margins but indistinctly, if at all, difi'er- 

 ent in color (Streptopelia). 

 &'. Outer web of outer tail-feather black at base, white at tip, the former color ex- 

 tending further down than on the inner web T. douraca torquatus. 



b"^. Outer web of outer tail-feather entirely white. 



c'. Under wing-coverts white [T. risorius.'] 



c^. Under wing-coverts plumbeous T. humilis. 



(1.59). Turtur gelastis (Tejim.). 

 Eastern Turtle-dove. Kiji-bato. 



1790.— ? Columba orientalis Latham, Ind. Orn., i, p. QOQ.— Turtur o. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, 

 p. 63. — Dkksser, B. of Eur., vii, p. 45, pi. 463 (1876). — Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1884, p. 35. 

 182'S.— Columba gelastis Temminck, PL Color., iv, 24 livr., pi. 550.— C. (Turlur) g. 

 , Temm. & SCHL., Fauna Jap., Av., p. 100, pi. 60 B (1847).— 'y'Mr^Mr g. 

 ,FiNSCH, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 1872, p. 264.— Stejneger, Proc, U. 

 S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, p. 400. 

 l82G.—Colu7nba rujncola Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. As., i, p. .560. —Tdr^ur r. Bonaparte, 

 Consp. Av., II, p. 60 (1854).— Blakist., Ibis, 1862, p. 329.— Whitely, Ibis, 

 1867 p.204.— Schlegel, Mus. P. -Bas, Columb., p. 118(1873).— McVean,. 

 Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinb., 1877, p. — , Extr., p. 6. 



